Satellite Symposium at ZEB UMI: Bridging between model and non-model animals

The use of traditional animal models may have been considered to be straightforward for novel scientific discoveries. However, with the advent of interdisciplinary/advanced approaches, the opportunities for the use of non-model organisms have become increasingly accessible. After the main congress, this symposium in Ushimado, a "Japanese Aegean Sea" resort, will bring together a limited number of international experts working with a range of model and non-model species, to create new research bridges, focusing on adaptations, behaviors and metabolisms not only in vertebrates, but also invertebrates. With novel approaches becoming readily available, the objective is to foster discussions and lay the framework for collaborations in a relaxed atmosphere at Ushimado Marine Institute (UMI), and will inspire researchers with unprecedented seamless information. The UMI is newly renovated as the first academic "Net Zero-Energy building (ZEB)" in Japan.

Responses can be e-mailed to ryu@okayama-u.ac.jp

We are very much looking forward to seeing you here in Ushimado.

With best wishes,

Tatsuya Sakamoto, Mayuko Hamada and Satoshi Ansai (UMI) with Hirotaka Sakamoto (ex UMI), Okayama University

Matt Vijayan, University of Calgary